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Speaker 2: Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're following today.

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Speaker 2: Karen, we begin with the Supreme Court decision that could

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Speaker 2: reshape the twenty twenty four presidential race and alter the

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Speaker 2: limits of presidential power well beyond this year. The Justice

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Speaker 2: is ruled in a six to three vote that former

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump has some immunity from criminal charges over

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Speaker 2: his efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election. Last night,

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Speaker 2: President Biden went before the cameras at the White House

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Speaker 2: to say the High Court set a dangerous precedent.

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Speaker 3: No one, no one is above the law, not even

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Speaker 3: the President of the United States. With today's Supreme Court decision,

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Speaker 3: I'm presidential immunity that fundamentally changed for all, for all

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Speaker 3: practical purposes. Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually.

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Speaker 2: No limits or And now President Biden says us up

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Speaker 2: to voters to render a judgment on Trump and decide

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Speaker 2: whether his actions on January sixth make him unfit for office.

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Speaker 1: Well now, Nathan, former President Trump is looking to take

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Speaker 1: his victory at the Supreme Court into new York. His

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Speaker 1: lawyers have taken the first steps to have his criminal

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Speaker 1: hush money convictions tossed out now that the High Court

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Speaker 1: has found he has substantial immunity. Trump is due for

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Speaker 1: sentencing next week on the thirty four felony counts. His

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Speaker 1: legal team is asking for a delay to allow time

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Speaker 1: for briefing and arguments.

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Speaker 2: I'm sticking with presidential politics careen. The Democratic National Committee

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Speaker 2: is now considering formally nominating Joe Biden as early as

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Speaker 2: this month, nearly a month before their convention. Bloomberg's Amy

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Speaker 2: Morris reports from Washington.

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Speaker 4: The strategy is to ensure that President Biden is on

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Speaker 4: November ballots and stamp out any intra party chatter of

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Speaker 4: replacing Biden after last week's poor debate performance. A potential

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Speaker 4: date for Biden's nomination is July twenty first, when the

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Speaker 4: Democratic Convention's create Udentials Committee meets. Virtually that's according to

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Speaker 4: people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Speaker 4: The panel is meeting to finalize procedures before the party's

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Speaker 4: convention in Chicago starts August nineteenth. In Washington, Amy Morris

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Speaker 4: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Amy, thank you all. Despite Biden's debate performance. The President's

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Speaker 1: campaigns says it raised one hundred and twenty seven million

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Speaker 1: dollars in June. The hall is the Biden campaign's best

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Speaker 1: fundraising month of the election cycle. Biden AD's have pointed

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Speaker 1: to their ability to rake in cash despite his performance

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Speaker 1: as evidence the President retained his party support and had

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Speaker 2: It's turned to politics overseas now. Karen French President, Emmanuel

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Speaker 2: mccrone's centrist Alliance and the left wing New Popular Front

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Speaker 2: are considering pulling candidates from the second round of parliamentary

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Speaker 2: voting in a bid to stop the far right. The

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Speaker 2: National Rally and it's allies won the largest share of

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Speaker 2: the vote in the first round, with just over thirty

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Speaker 2: three percent. Now, an outright majority for Marine La Penn's

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Speaker 2: party or a hung parliament are the most likely eventualities.

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Speaker 2: Alan Katz is Bloomberg's bureau chief in Paris.

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Speaker 5: If you're in the financial market, your best case scenario

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Speaker 5: is nothing happens over the next three years. This is

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Speaker 5: very hard for French people to accept the idea that

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Speaker 5: you might spend a long time not legislating, not really

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Speaker 5: doing anything it's very different. You know, if you're American,

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Speaker 5: that sort of you're like, well, actually, that's way it's

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Speaker 5: that the executive branch has a majority in parliament and

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Paris Bureau chief Allan Katz says the second round

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Speaker 2: of voting takes place Sunday. Stocks in France are lower

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Speaker 2: this morning. They've now wiped out nearly all of yesterday's games.

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Speaker 1: Here in the US, Nathan futures are lower. Ahead of

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Speaker 1: the session on Wall Street, automakers will be in focus,

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Speaker 1: with car makers releasing monthly sales data. Analysts are expecting

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Speaker 1: Tesla to report another quarter of sales and dan Ives

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Speaker 1: covers the ev maker for web Bush Securities.

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Speaker 7: I think Tesla bet Whisper numbers four fifteen K four

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Speaker 7: and Tesla has begun, which is why we see a

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Speaker 1: Months, when Bush's dan ives as a two hundred and

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Speaker 2: And Microsoft will begin today's session at all time highs Karen.

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Speaker 2: As a result, Steve Balmer has now passed Bill Gates

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Speaker 2: as the sixth richest person in the world. We get

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Speaker 2: more from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellett.

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Speaker 8: It is the first time that the former CEO of

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Speaker 8: Microsoft has been wealthier than the company's co founder. The

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Speaker 8: move came as Microsoft shares rose to another record, bringing

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Speaker 8: their total game this year to twenty one percent. The company,

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Speaker 8: through its partnership with open Ai, has been one of

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Speaker 8: powered the US stock market higher. More than ninety percent

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Speaker 8: of Balmer's one hundred and fifty seven point two billion

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Speaker 8: Bloomberg Billionaire's Index in New York. Charlie Pellett Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Right, Charlie, thank you, and we're also following shares at

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Speaker 1: Paramount Global this morning. This after The New York Times

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Speaker 1: reported Barry Diller is considering making an offer for control

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Speaker 1: of the company. We get more from Bloomberg's Doug Krisner.

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Speaker 6: Diller's interest in Paramount is the latest twist and a

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Speaker 6: complex and dramatic effort to sell the company. Last month,

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Speaker 6: a deal seemed close with Skydance Media. Then talks between

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Speaker 6: Skydance and Paramount's controlling shareholder, National Amusements, fell apart. It

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Speaker 6: appears Diller's non disclosure agreement with National Amusements was signed

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Speaker 6: sometime after the Skydance deal fell through. Now a bit

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Speaker 6: to take control of Paramount would be a codea of

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Speaker 6: sorts for Diller. He tried to acquire Paramot Pictures in

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Speaker 6: the early nineteen nineties. Buddy was outbid by Sumner Redstone,

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Speaker 6: the media mogul whose daughter Sherry now controls the company

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Speaker 6: through National Amusements.

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Speaker 9: In New York.

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Speaker 6: I'm Doug Prisoner, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: All right, Doug, thank you, and shares a. Paramount Global

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Speaker 1: up almost three percent this morning. Time now for a

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Speaker 1: look at some of the other stories making news in

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Speaker 1: New York and around the world. For that, we're joined

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Speaker 1: by Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Michael, good morning.

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Speaker 9: Good morning, Karen Hurricane Beryl is strengthened to Category five

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Speaker 9: status as it crosses islands in the southeastern Caribbean. It's

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Speaker 9: the earliest Cat five hurricane in the Atlantic ever. Beryl

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Speaker 9: ripped off doors, windows and roofs and homes. Grenada's Prime

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Speaker 9: Minister Dick and Mitchell said late last night that one

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Speaker 7: The expectation is that the damage in Kaikwon pet Machnik

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Speaker 9: Early today, Beryl's wins increased to one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 9: A Massachusetts judge declared to miss trial in the case

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Speaker 9: a Boston police officer, with their suv and leaving him

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Speaker 9: to die in a snowstorm. In twenty twenty two. Jurors

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Speaker 1: To continue to deliberate would be feudal and only serve

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Speaker 9: Defense attorney Alan Jackson celebrated the decision outside the courthouse.

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Speaker 10: This is what it looks like when you bring false

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Speaker 9: Reed must return to a Massachusetts court room later this

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Speaker 9: The Israeli Army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians

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Speaker 9: that Hamas has regrouped there. We're learning several US military

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Speaker 9: bases across Europe were put under a heightened state of alert,

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Speaker 9: Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh spoke during Monday's Pentagon briefing

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Speaker 9: not related to a single threat, but it was due

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Speaker 9: to a combination of factors, potentially things impacting the safety

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Speaker 9: The Pentagon. Sabrina Singh says the height and alert was

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Speaker 9: done out of an abundance of caution. Global news twenty

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Speaker 1: Karen Ray, Michael Barr, thank you time now for the

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Sports Update with John Stashauer.

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Speaker 11: John, good morning, Good morning Carrion. It's a busy day

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Speaker 11: for the NBA champion Boston Celtics. First they rewarded Derek

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Speaker 11: fifteen million, So Tatum will make sixty three million a year,

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Speaker 11: for sale. Wick Grossbeck became majority owner in two thousand

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Speaker 11: seven billion. Klay Thompson leaving the Warriors after thirteen seasons

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Speaker 11: the Knicks need a center. They may resign Tresca Sachua.

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Speaker 11: There's also NHL free agency, and among the signings Steven

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Speaker 11: Kansas City. Was the end of group play in Copa

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Speaker 8: Good morning.

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Speaker 11: I'm Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 2: President Biden is blasting the Supreme Court's final decision of

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Speaker 2: its term giving presidents some immunity from criminal prosecution over

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Speaker 3: This is a fundamentally new principle, and it's a dangerous

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Speaker 3: precedent because the power of the office will no longer

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Speaker 2: And in remarks last night from the White House, the

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Speaker 2: more than two decades. Kevin, Good Morning. This decision obviously

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Speaker 10: I think he's sort of making about the only argument

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Speaker 10: I do think the sweep of this ruling, even though

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Speaker 2: So then I guess it shouldn't come as too much

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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I mean it makes sense. They've made the

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Speaker 10: argument before, they'll make it again. I think that one's

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Speaker 10: So it's gonna be a little hard to call that

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Speaker 2: Obviously the president is hoping that this decision takes some

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Speaker 11: Does that do that well?

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Speaker 10: I think it's probably the only play he has, and

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Speaker 10: it was probably always his best play, frankly is essentially

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Speaker 10: making this into an anti Trump versus Trump kind of

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Speaker 10: certainly this does reframe once again that sort of remark

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Speaker 10: cast a vote for him. It's interesting, Kevin, you know,

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Speaker 10: following the debate performance, Who've got this reporting from Bloomberg

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Speaker 10: News of the Democratic National Committees thinking of nominating President

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Speaker 10: and one debate performance may not change that. To me,

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